 "Android 4.4.1 KitKat update brings major camera improvements to Nexus 5")
Close on the heels of reports of an update to Android KitKat, Google has started rolling out Android version 4.4.1 to Nexus 5 devices now. The update will mainly bring along some major improvements to the camera performance on the recently released Nexus 5.
In a Google+ post for the official Nexus page, Google wrote that the HDR+ was coming to the camera on the Nexus 5 alongside the Android 4.4.1 rollout. The camera boost will see users being able to take “great shots in challenging environments”.
Camera improvements for Nexus 5
Say if there’s a large contrast of bright and dark portions of the scene or there’s a shot you need to take in lowlight, HDR+ will be able to let you take a burst of shots with a single click to the shutter button. Instead of just one picture, it will take multiple shots in about one third of a second and apply computational photography to fuse images together.
Now, this feature gets a boost with an update to Android KitKat that Google says has already started to rollout to Nexus 5 devices today. The camera will let you now focus faster, especially in low light, faster white balance, truer colours, the ability to pinch-zoom the viewfinder in HDR+ mode and, most importantly, less shutter lag.
Rumours about an impending update to Android KitKat sprung up earlier this week when 9to5Google reported that it had spotted Nexus 4, Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 devices on analytics running a mysterious Android 4.4.1 OS. These sightings had grown over a period of a few days in mid-November, not too long after 4.4 KitKat was released for Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 devices.
While Nexus’ Google+ post is only talking about the Nexus 5 getting Android 4.4.1 right now, we’re reading of Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 devices getting this update too, bringing along several bug fixes. These will probably fix the multiple issues users have been complaining about since the rollout of the 4.4 KitKat update.
If you own a Nexus 4 or Nexus 7 device, you may want to keep an eye out for any update notifications you may receive. If you have a Nexus 5 device, an OTA update should be making its way to your phone over a period of the next few days.
Click here to read our review of the Nexus 5.
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